Silo Park looks like a map on Steampunk FPS. Sniper tower, mined, only used in CTF games. Playground, weapon spawn point. Carpark, hand weapon spawn point, zombies lurking. Ladders on silos form intricate maze which must be navigated to get around the satanic ritual playing out below, and locks which have to be turned to stop the machine before it kills us all.....

This installation in Canberra came alive at night. Stabiliser: the glass window.

thanks for the breathing tips. Somewhere in the deep recesses I know that... I think I just push the boundaries of handheld because I am too lazy to haul my heavy manfrotto around. Or I'm getting shaky in my middle age.

Any chance of dumping them on a memory stick, or something? Would be lovely if you could contribute some shots too. ;-)

Aw, thanks Jack, working on it! PC desktop with files on, Macbook online, only medium that goes on both is a disc and I tried writing some jpgs on a disc and now the damn Macbook can't see them. Portable backup drive is Windows-formatted. Trying to get the stupid desktop to detect the wireless network but suspect it must be missing a receiver or something as have tried everything but percussive maintenance....

Thought a tripod might steady things a bit. But it’s such a bitch of a thing to operate. (Oops! Are we allowed to swear on here?). Have fallen over it’s legs twice.

I’ve used my tripod so much I’ve developed a sort of reflexive tango-step to avoid tripping over the legs. :-)

Tripods vary so much. I’ve found a lot of them are unnecessarily stiff and awkward to adjust – the manufacturers seem to expect we all have big hulk-man hands! But my lightweight ball-head Manfrotto is just right. And you can pull out the post and slot it in sideways, which is also very handy for some shots (for instance when you want to point downwards without getting the tripod legs (or their shadows) in the shot.

I have gotten away with exposures of a few seconds by putting the camera-strap round my neck, holding the camera out with both hands so the strap is pulled taut, elbows braced against my sides

Because I don't often carry around the tripods I have been given over the years (I'm now down to "the good one" and "the light one" and have stopped saying "If you don't want it any more...") instead I carry a string bipod in my camera bag. A central bolt that fits the attach point on the camera, then two lengths of string the right height for me to stand on the washers attached to the ends making the string taut to steady the camera. The camera strap pulled taut against the neck forms the third axis of the tripod.